If you loved Apart from You, try Wife! Be Like a Rose!
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Both films are directed by Mikio Naruse, and they both carry the bittersweet, tender mood tags, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Apart from You, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What Wife! Be Like a Rose! is
Madame Butterfly meets Tokyo street life. Kimiko searches for her absent father to negotiate her marriage. Carries the tone of 1930s Japan.
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